Bibliography of Abraham Lincoln Resources

General Resources
Illinois Years and Early Political Career
Presidency and Civil War
Assassination and Murder Plots
Writings and Speeches
Lincoln and Slavery
Lincoln Memorials, Monuments, and Holidays
Lincoln in Juvenile Fiction

Few U.S. presidents have garnered as much attention as Abraham Lincoln. The details of his political and personal life have been scrutinized by scholars and historians, and devoured by a fascinated public. This guide offers a list of fiction and non-fiction resources found in the Education School Collection covering everything from Lincoln’s presidency and assassination to monuments in his honor and sightings of his ghost. Also included are works about the Lincoln family and the men and women who conspired to take his life.

Additional juvenile materials on Abraham Lincoln can be found in the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections, the Center for Children’s Books, and the University Laboratory High School Library. Enter “Lincoln, Abraham” into a subject search in the online catalog to locate these works.

A number of titles on this list are broader works which include sections or chapters on Lincoln. Those works are noted with a star (*).

A related guide, Abraham Lincoln Biographies, contains a complete list of Abraham Lincoln biographies that can be found in the Education and Social Science Library School Collection.

GENERAL RESOURCES

Q.S.973 B328o	*Bausum, Ann. Our Country’s Presidents. National Geographic Society, 2001.
S.920 B72P	*Bradford, Gamaliel. Portraits and Personalities. Houghton Mifflin, 1933.
S.920 C4755H	*Churchill, Winston. Heroes of History. Dodd, Mead, 1968.
S.133.10973 C66h	*Cohen, Daniel. Hauntings and Horrors: The Ultimate Guide to Spooky America. Dutton Children’s Books, 2002.
S.973.7 D294d	Davis, Kenneth C. Don’t Know Much About Abraham Lincoln. HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2004.
S.340.092 EM36T	*Emert, Phyllis Raybin. Top Lawyers and Their Famous Cases. Oliver Press, 1996.
S.323.44 F619G	*Flaxman, Andrew. Great Thinkers of American History: A Study of the Spirit of Freedom and Liberty Through the Lives of Franklin and Lincoln. Gifted Education Press, 1989.
S.909 F81A	Foster, Genevieve. Abraham Lincoln’s World, 1809-1865. Scribner, 1944.
S.923.173 H19835M	Hanser, Richard. Meet Mr. Lincoln. Golden Press, 1960.
S.341.1 L444T	*Lawson, Don. Ten Fighters for Peace: An Anthology. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1971.
S.973.092 L469	*Leaders of the Frontier. Beckley-Cardy, 1950.
S.973.099 L645J	*Lindop, Edmund. James K. Polk, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt. Twenty-First Century Books, 1995.
S.920.02 M369M	*Marzollo, Jean. My First Book of Biographies: Great Men and Women Every Child Should Know. Scholastic, 1994.
S.973. 80922 P926	*Presidents of a Divided Nation: A Sourcebook on the U.S. Presidency. Millbrook Press, 1993.
Q.S.973.09 P926	*Presidents of the United States. HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.
S.920 Q41R	*Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir. The Roll Call of Honour, A New Book of Golden Deeds. T. Nelson and Sons, 1911.
SB. L73Nl 1966	*Rinkan: Kenedi, Chachiru. Shogakkan, 1966.
S.920 T343	*There Were Giants in the Land: Twenty-Eight Historic Americans as Seen by Twenty-Eight Contemporary Americans, With an Introduction by Henry Morgenthau Jr. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1942.

ILLINOIS YEARS AND EARLY POLITICAL CAREER

S.917.73 F869L	Fraizer, Carl. Lincoln Country In Pictures. Hastings House, 1963.
S.920 H18H	Hamilton, Elisabeth B. How They Started: Nine Famous Men Begin Their Careers. Harcourt, Brace, 1937.
S.973.70922 J268l	January, Brendan. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Children’s Press, 1998.
SB. D736N	Nolan, Jeannette Covert. The Little Giant: The Story of Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. J. Messner, Inc., 1942
S.326.0973 P611l	Pierce, Alan. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. ABDO Pub., 2005.

PRESIDENCY AND CIVIL WAR

S.973.73 Ar64o	Arnold, James R. On to Richmond: the Civil War in the East. Lerner Publications Co., 2002.
S.909.81 F813Y	Foster, Genevieve. Year of Lincoln, 1861. Scribner, 1970.
S.973.7 SA5S	Sandburg, Carl. Storm Over the Land: A Profile of the Civil War Taken Mainly from Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg. With 60 Halftones from Photographs and 98 Drawings, Maps, and Sketches. Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1942.

ASSASSINATION AND MURDER PLOTS

S.973.7092 F514m	Fireside, Bryna J. The Mary Surratt “Lincoln Assassination Trial”: A Headline Court Case. Enslow Publishers, 2001.
S.973.7092 G262m	Geary, Rick. The Murder of Abraham Lincoln: A Chronicle of 62 Days in the Life of the American Republic, March 4-May 4, 1865. NBM ComicsLit, 2005.
SB.B725g	Giblin, James. Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth. Clarion, 2005.
S.793.7092 H749p	Holzer, Harold. The President Is Shot!: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Boyds Mills Press, 2004.
S.973.7 H998a	Hynd, Alan. Arrival 12:30: The Baltimore Plot Against Lincoln. Nelson, 1967.
SB.S962j	Jones, Rebecca C. The Mystery of Mary Surratt: The Plot to Kill President Lincoln. Tidewater Publishers, 2004.
S.364.15240973 L645A	*Lindop, Edmund. Assassinations that Shook America. F. Watts, 1992.
S.973.8 N124c	*Naden, Corinne J. Civil War Ends: Assassination, Reconstruction, and the Aftermath. Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers, 2000.
S.973.7092 Ol86a	Olson, Kay Melchisedech. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Capstone Press, 2005.
S.973.7092 So53l	Somerlott, Robert. The Lincoln Assassination in American History. Enslow Publishers, 1998.
S.973.7092 Z35l	Zeinert, Karen. The Lincoln Murder Plot. Linnet Books, 1999.

WRITINGS AND SPEECHES

S.973.7 Ar57t	Armstrong, Jennifer. A Three-Minute Speech: Lincoln’s Remarks at Gettysburg. Aladdin Paperbacks, 2003.
S.973.714 C188e	Carey, Charles W. The Emancipation Proclamation. Child’s World, 1999.
S.973.7092 F327a	Feinberg, Barbara Silberdick. Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: Four Score and More. Twenty-First Century Books, 2000.
S.973.7 J268E	January, Brendan. The Emancipation Proclamation. Children’s Press, 1997.
S.973.714 L346l	Latham, Frank Brown. Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863: The Document that Turned the Civil War into a Fight for Freedom. Watts, 1969.
S.973.7349 L638a	Lincoln, Abraham. Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Illustrated. Childton Co., 1965.
S.973.7 L638f	Lincoln, Abraham. The First Book Edition of the Gettysburg Address. The Second Inaugural. F. Watts, 1963.
Q.S. 973.7349 L63G	Lincoln, Abraham. The Gettysburg Address. Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
S.973.7 M1341e	McComb, Marianne. The Emancipation Proclamation. National Geographic Society, 2006.
S.973.7 L63N1863GYPH	Phelan, Mary Kay. Mr. Lincoln Speaks at Gettysburg. W.W. Norton, 1966.
S.973.7 R524g	Rivera, Sheila. The Gettysburg Address. ABDO Daughters, 2004.
S.973.7349 T153g	Tanaka, Shelley. Gettysburg: the Legendary Battle and the Address that Inspired a Nation. Hyperion Books for Children, 2003.

LINCOLN AND SLAVERY

S.301.45
D747M
1966

Douglas, William O. Mr. Lincoln & The Negroes: The Long Road to Equality. Atheneum, 1966.

LINCOLN FAMILY

SB.L738a 1991	Anderson, LaVere. Mary Todd Lincoln, President’s Wife. Chelsea Juniors, 1991.
SB.L739A	Anderson, LaVere. Tad Lincoln, Abe’s Son. Garrard Pub. Co., 1971.
SB.L7391B	Bailey, Bernadine. Abe Lincoln’s Other Mother: The Story of Sarah Bush Lincoln. J. Messner, 1961.
SB.L738C	*Collins, David R. Shattered Dreams: The Story of Mary Todd Lincoln. M. Reynolds, 1994.
SB.H241l	Le Sueur, Meridel. Nancy Hanks of Wilderness Road: A Story of Abraham Lincoln’s Mother. A.A. Knopf, 1949.
SB.H241L 1990	Le Sueur, Meridel. Nancy Hanks of Wilderness Road: A Story of Abraham Lincoln’s Mother. Holy Cow! Press, 1990.
S.973.09 Oc55i	*O’Connor, Jane. If the Walls Could Talk: Family Life at the White House. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2004.
SB.L738r	Randall, Ruth Painter. I, Mary: A Biography of the Girl Who Married Abraham Lincoln. Little, Brown, 1959.
S.929 R158L	Randall, Ruth Painter. Lincoln’s Sons. Little, Brown, 1955.
S.973.7 SA563L	Sandak, Cass R. The Lincolns. Crestwood House, 1992.
SB.H241S 1962	Stevenson, Augusta. Nancy Hanks, Country Girl. Bobbs-Merrill, 1962.
SB.L739W	Weaver, John Downing. Tad Lincoln, Mischief-Maker in the White House. Dodd, Mead, 1963.

LINCOLN MEMORIALS, MONUMENTS, AND HOLIDAYS

S.975.3 As31n	Ashabranner, Brent K. No Better Hope: What the Lincoln Memorial Means to America. Twenty-First Century Books, 2001.
S.973.7092 AS31M	Ashabranner, Brent K. A Memorial for Mr. Lincoln. Putnam, 1992.
S.730.92 F887G	Goldstein, Ernest. The Statue Abraham Lincoln: A Masterpiece by Daniel Chester Finch. Lerner Publications Co., 1997.
S.808.81 H23O 1938	*Harrington, Mildred P. Our Holidays in Poetry. The H.W. Wilson Co., 1929.
S.973.41 M228P	MacMillan, Dianne M. President’s Day. Enslow, 1997.

LINCOLN IN JUVENILE FICTION

S.812 SH58A	Sherwood, Robert E. Abe Lincoln in Illinois, A Play in Twelve Scenes. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1939.
Q.S.B419IN	Belting, Natalia Maree. Indy and Mr. Lincoln. Holt, 1960.
S.B568se	Blackwood, Gary L. Second Sight. Dutton Children’s Books, 2005.
S.371.8952 B58	*Blue-Ribbon Plays for Girls: A Collection of Royalty-Free One-Act Plays for All-Girl Casts. Plays, 1955.
Q.SE. B64425a	Borden, Louise. A. Lincoln and Me. Scholastic, 2000.
S.C267p	Caseley, Judith. Praying to A.L. Greenwillow Books, 2000.
SE.C63M	Coblentz, Catherine Cate. Martin and Abraham Lincoln: Based on a True Incident. Children’s Press, 1947.
S.B751S	Brenner, Barbara. Saving the President: What if Lincoln Had Lived? J. Messner, 1987.
S.EI38B	Eifert, Virginia Louise Snider. The Buffalo Trace. Dodd, Mead, 1955.
S.EI38N	Eifert, Virginia Louise Snider. New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln in the White House. Dodd, Mead, 1959.
S.EI38O	Eifert, Virginia Louise Snider. Out of the Wilderness: Young Abe Lincoln Grows Up. Dodd, Mead, 1956.
S.EI38W	Eifert, Virginia Louise Snider. With a Task Before Me: Abraham Lincoln Leaves Springfield. Dodd, Mead, 1958.
S.EI38T	Eifert, Virginia Louise Snider. Three Rivers South: The Story of Young Abe Lincoln. Dodd, Mead, 1953.
S.G68B	Gormley, Beatrice. Back to the Day Lincoln Was Shot! Scholastic, 1996.
S.G832L	Greene, Homer. A Lincoln Conscript. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909.
S.812 H22S	*Hark, Mildred. Special Plays for Special Days: Non-Royalty Holiday Plays for Young People. Plays, Inc., 1947.
Q.S.H589t	Hines, Gary. Thanksgiving in the White House. Henry Holt, 2003.
S.H861v	Hubbard, Freeman H. Vinnie Ream and Mr. Lincoln. Whittlesey House, 1949.
S.L57R	Le Sueur, Meridel. The River Road: A Story of Abraham Lincoln. Knopf, 1954.
S.M125pio	*McCall, Edith S. Pioneer Traders. Children’s Press, 1964.
S.M992a	Myers, Anna. Assassin. Walker & Company, 2005.
S.N494H	Neyhart, Louise Albright. Henry’s Lincoln. Holiday House, 1945.
S.N494H 1958	Neyhart, Louise Albright. Henry’s Lincoln. Holiday House, 1958.
S.Os1af	Osborne, Mary Pope. After The Rain. Scholastic, 2002.
S.P283L	Pauli, Hertha Ernestine. Lincoln’s Little Correspondent. Doubleday, 1952.
S.P6562a	Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Abraham Lincoln: Letter from a Slave Girl. Winslow Press, 2001.
Q.SE.R278b	Reiss, Mike. The Boy Who Looked Like Abraham Lincoln. Price Stern Sloan, 2003.
S.818 Sa56s	Sandburg, Carl. The Sandburg Treasury: Prose and Poetry for Young People. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.
S.Sa69l	Sappey, Maureen Stack. Letters from Vinnie. Front Street, 1999.
S.St73lo	Stone, Irving. Love Is Eternal: A Novel About Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln. Doubleday, 1954.
S.ST812AB	Strasser, Todd. Abe Lincoln for Class President! Scholastic, 1995.
SE.W112J	Waber, Bernard. Just Like Abraham Lincoln. Houghton Mifflin, 1964.
S.W699A	Wilson, William Edward. Abe Lincoln of Pigeon Creek, A Novel. Whittlesey House, 1949.

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